M96bds_2_v3 by Microsoft Azure

M96bds_2_v3 is a MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 96 vCPUs, 1946 GiB of memory and 4.61 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 7.0177 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
1946 GiB Memory
4.61 TB Storage
Spare SCore
91,198
(All-cores)
2,057
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M96bds_2_v3
Name
M96bds_2_v3
API Reference
Standard_M96bds_2_v3
Description
MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family [Block Storage performance] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 96 vCPUs
Family
MBDSMediumMemoryv3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
56
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-16T12:27:36.393676

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
7.0177 USD/h 34.4678 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
7.0177 USD/h 34.4678 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
7.0181 USD/h 34.47 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
7.0181 USD/h 34.47 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
7.0181 USD/h 34.47 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
7.0181 USD/h 34.47 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
7.0181 USD/h 34.47 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 34.47 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 34.47 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
7.9302 USD/h 38.9499 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
8.2112 USD/h 40.3299 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
8.2112 USD/h 40.33 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
8.4106 USD/h 41.3093 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
8.4209 USD/h 41.36 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
8.4209 USD/h 41.36 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
9.1166 USD/h 41.364 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
8.4657 USD/h 41.58 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
8.4663 USD/h 41.5829 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
8.7726 USD/h 43.0875 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
8.8311 USD/h 43.3747 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
9.1229 USD/h 44.8082 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
9.1233 USD/h 44.81 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
9.4744 USD/h 46.5345 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
9.825 USD/h 48.2563 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
10.0359 USD/h 49.2921 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
10.0359 USD/h 49.2921 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
10.1762 USD/h 49.9815 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
10.878 USD/h 53.4285 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
10.878 USD/h 53.4285 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
14.0362 USD/h 68.94 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
96
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
48
CPU Speed
4 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8473C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
96 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
105 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
210 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, user_shstk, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, avx512vbmi, umip, waitpkg, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, serialize, tsxldtrk, ibt, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
44.3
Scalability
92.29

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
2 TB
Memory Amount Actual
2 TB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    4608 GB
    Storages
    • 4608 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A high-density, memory-optimized platform featuring 1.9 TB of RAM and 96 vCPUs for demanding enterprise database and data-processing workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseCompute Optimized

    Microsoft Azure M96bds_2_v3 is a memory-optimized server from the MBDSMediumMemoryv3 family, featuring a dedicated 96-vCPU Intel Xeon 8473C processor running at 4.0 GHz on the x86_64 architecture. It is equipped with 1946.0 GB of RAM and 4608 GB of local storage, with no integrated GPUs. Benchmarks show top-tier memory bandwidth, with cached small-block reads reaching 7459.57 GB/sec, and exceptional multi-threaded capabilities, including a multi-threaded bzip3 decompression speed of 559.33 GB/sec. The server excels in database operations and static web serving, though single-core performance remains average. This high-density resource profile provides qualitative cost efficiency by consolidating massive memory and compute power into a single Hyper-V virtualized instance. It is highly suited for large-scale databases, in-memory caching, and enterprise data processing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    5.17Score
    Precomputed compound score for Cache Intensive workloads. A weighted average (geometric mean) of benchmark scores compared to their medians: score = ∏ (x_i / m_i)^(w_i / Σw). The score of 1.0 represents a synthetic baseline server with the median performance of each component benchmark; 0.5 means roughly half the performance; and 2.0 means twice the performance of that reference profile. Component weights: 50% Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), 20% Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET), 10% PassMark Memory Mark (composite), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3), 10% PassMark single-thread CPU. Rationale for component selection: In-memory key-value store workload, mixing direct Redis performance metrics with memory speed and latency benchmarks, and single-core CPU performance profiles.
    Component Score Weight Impact
    Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
    Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 16,578,966 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 8.65 50.00% 50.00% +194.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 82,491,909 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 7.06 20.00% 20.00% +47.80%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,401 2,418 0.993 10.00% 10.00% -0.07%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 465,177 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 4.3 10.00% 10.00% +15.70%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,161 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.34 10.00% 10.00% +2.97%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,195

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 20,442

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 97234
    Compression
    		 1600017
    Encryption
    		 96301
    Extended Instructions
    		 120418
    Floating Point Maths
    		 310857
    Integer Maths
    		 437229
    Physics
    		 13199
    Prime Numbers
    		 781
    Single Threaded
    		 3161
    String Sorting
    		 215373

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2401
    Database Operations
    		 35123
    Memory Latency
    		 71
    Memory Read Cached
    		 27711
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10286
    Memory Write
    		 9185

    Stress-ng Raw Scores

    Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

    LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

    LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

    Static Web Server

    Redis

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    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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    M96-48bds_2_v3 481946 GiB0
    M64bds_v3 64512 GiB0
    M128-64bds_v3 641024 GiB0
    M64bds_1_v3 641397 GiB0

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